St. Mark's Bookshop

Welcome to St. Mark's Bookshop

St. Mark's Bookshop was established in 1977 in New York's East Village, a community of students, academics, arts professionals and other eclectic readers. Our specialties include Cultural Theory, Graphic Design, Poetry & Small Press Publishers, Film Studies and Foreign & Domestic Periodicals & Journals.

Beginning in the Spring of 2008, we're hosting a reading series! Click here for more information!

Please Note: We update the inventory information on this website daily so that the inventory screen for each title will reflect our current stock quantity. Look for the Inventory Status field on each book's individual page:

- If there is a quantity indicated as "on our shelves now," that is the number of copies currently onhand.

- If, instead of a quantity, the book's status is listed as "usually ships in 1 to 5 days," then we do not have the book in stock but we can usually order it for you locally.

This Week's Arrivals

Numerous authors visit St. Mark's Bookshop and often sign copies of their books. Browse our current selection and order a copy via e-mail at no extra charge. These items are available from St. Mark's Bookshop ONLY by e-mail order. (Do not use the Book Sense electronic order system to purchase autograph copies.)

This page updated September 18, 2008.

Poker
by Salamun, Tomaz, Beckman, Joshua, Rohrer, Matthew
Poker is Tomaz Salamun's first book of poetry, originally published in 1966 in Slovenia. This edition, vibrantly translated by award-winning poet Joshua Beckman in collaboration with the author, makes Poker available in its entirety in English. As a young poet Salamun edited Perspektive, a progressive cultural and political journal. Communist authorities eventually banned the journal's publication and arrested Salamun. His first two books, Poker (1966) and The Purpose of the Cloak (1968), were released in samizdat. Salamun went on to become one of the most widely respected of European poets and achieved international acclaim, later even serving as the Slovenian cultural attach in New York City. Salamun has had several collections published in English translation, including The Shepherd, the Hunter (Pedernal, 1992), The Four Questions of Melancholy (White Pine Press, 1997), The Selected Poems of Tomaz Salamun (Ecco Press, 1988), Feast (Harcourt Brace, 2000), A Ballad for Metka Krasovec (Twisted Spoon Press, 2001), and The Book For My Brother (Harvest Books, 2006). Salamun has won the praise of many poets, including James Tate, Robert Creeley, Robert Hass, who celebrates his "love of the poetics of rebellion," and Jorie Graham, who calls his work "one of Europe's great philosophical wonders." Joshua Beckman is the author of three books of poetry: Shake, Your Time Has Come, and Something I Expected To Be Different. He has also authored two books in collaboration with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. Beckman is an editor at Wave Books. We have copies signed by both the author and the translator.

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